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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced he will introduce the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, imposing a one-time 50 percent tax on major AI companies paid in stock to create a federal sovereign wealth fund with p…
The ancient Greek virtue of sophrosyne—sound-mindedness, moderation and self-knowledge—is essential for human flourishing in the age of AI, according to philosopher and researcher Ross Reed. Reed argues that modern vices…
President Donald Trump endorsed the concept of the U.S. government taking direct equity stakes in major AI companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI, aligning with a proposal from Senator Bernie Sanders that would i…
A developer building a multi-layer verification system for AI-generated outputs identified a critical blind spot: no layer was checking the biases and motivations of the person running the verification. After reading Rya…
Smart TV owners are unknowingly contributing to the AI data-scraping economy through a software development kit (SDK) from data-collection firm Bright Data, which is embedded in consumer apps and turns devices into resid…
An anonymous engineer attempted to fix a critical shared-credential vulnerability between two internal microservices, but their pull request was automatically rejected by a $1.4 million AI security platform called VoidSe…
A new buyer's guide for enterprise AI agent platforms outlines ten critical questions regulated organizations must answer before signing a contract, focusing on data control, model governance, and compliance readiness. T…
Investment leaders in 2021 identified artificial intelligence-driven job displacement as a significant emerging risk to global markets and economic stability. The concern reflects growing unease among financial executive…
A final-year math and computer science undergraduate is questioning whether pursuing a career in theoretical robotics, specifically in continual learning for robots, would be unethical due to concerns it could accelerate…
Christopher Baines released Safsaf, a new web framework for Guile built on Guile Fibers and the Guile Knots web server, drawing from his seven years of experience developing Guix-related services. The framework, approxim…
How people treat others when no one is watching—such as yelling at a customer service bot or a slow web page—deepens neural pathways in the brain that wire individuals for anger or patience, according to neuroscience. Th…
Two lawyers were sanctioned by the Ninth Circuit on June 3 for relying on generative artificial intelligence to draft a legal brief, resulting in numerous errors and false statements to the court. The court ordered each …
A small study testing whether wrapping untrusted prompt inputs in mock tool calls could improve language model robustness found the technique did not broadly help across three LLM-as-a-Judge tasks and in some cases made …
Sony's age verification partner Yoti is threatening users of the privacy-focused Android operating system GrapheneOS with account restrictions or bans. The company has flagged the secure OS as a potential security risk, …
Microsoft's internal strategy documents reveal the company plans to make users "addicted" to its new AI personal assistant, Scout, before expanding its capabilities. The documents outline a three-phase approach to transi…
A computer science PhD graduate who pivoted into animal welfare has stopped donating to the cause after finding that even the most well-known interventions—including shrimp stunning, cage-free reforms, and alternative pr…
Suhana Sayyad, an MSc Cybersecurity student at TUS Athlone, built a free, open-source interactive tool that maps 30 EU AI Act obligations to their equivalents in NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001. The tool provides strength rati…
Meta has scaled back its employee keystroke and mouse-click tracking program after worker backlash, now allowing staff to pause data collection for up to 30 minutes or request full exemptions. The retreat follows a petit…
A.I. is creating jobs rather than eliminating them, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who said executives blaming layoffs on artificial intelligence are "lazy." The shift in discourse comes as a majority of Americans…
A university undergraduate student, referred to as "Joe," spent eight weeks building an AI agent that he claimed could automatically verify the MTQQ protocol specification, presenting the completed project to his profess…